Thanks for taking one for the team.

Wow! Almost ordered that junk yesterday. Thanks for the heads up, I got enough unreliable junk bought over the last 20 years

Look it spins, and very nice decoration for your garden.

My biggest surprise was that it didn't disintegrate at anything over 30MPH.

Love it mate years ago i did the same towing a trailer with turbines mounted high on a steel pole, i had no camera i was just sorting the facts from lies

you know, it is difficult to not believe that.." it is quite cheap, even if it is not be enough good as they said... it could be a good stuff ..." THANK YOU TO SHOW HOW MUCH A PIECE OF SCRAP IT IS! HOPE EVERY ONE IN THE WORLD LOOK FOR INFO ON YOUR CHANNEL! AGAIN THANKS A LOT!

Thanks you saved me money by testing this.

My good sir it’s one of the funniest things I have seen in a while so thank you. Those lantern style turbines are junk, I had one and now it’s just yard art.

I almost bought one of these. Thank you for saving me from my stupid mistake.

Funneling the air to hit the turbine only at the front and exit only out the rear would be a big improvement. I picture an upside down bowl over the turbine with an opening at the front and back, kind of like an igloo with a front and back door. I suspect the blades aren't optimized in the least for capturing wind, so that would be the next step.

Be interesting to put this in a wind tunnel with a variable fan and wind speed monitor.

There you go, he did all the test and that crap is crap!!! awesome test sir! you saved us a lot of money on this junk!

I'd take one of those and rework it, use it for the platform. Thanks for the video.

if your battery is completely dead it may not take a charge so the wind generator cannot push it in so it will read low and the same if it's full the regulator will not pass power through same with a dead battery the regulator stops it you are probably better doing open circuit test but the regulator can and will stop any output. Also the newer models appear to do a better job going by the reviews

It's amazing how the blades didn't break off from the vibration of the road !!!

Would have loved to see 'concluding thoughts'; awesome amount of willingness to try!

We have pretty light winds as we are in a valley. We have good solar but looking at adding a small wind turbine to top up the 48v lithium battery in cloudy weather and at night. What cheap wind turbine would you recommend for light winds?

Thanks for this, I was considering one of these to supplement my 200 watt solar setup during the winter months, my setup is not ideal and in winter the sun is too low for the panels to give a reasonable output, looks like I'l have to come up with something else, I cannot go with a larger turbine as space is an issue.

Love it. Great job.

Lookong to the output voltage with 10v at 60 miles, as if the generator is for 6V battery. The build seems good, so if you can put a boost converter to test it one last time before throwing it..

Good luck to You! Very good video, at least, even these couple vatts are big surprise, from this garden decoration :) keep up the good work. Also, look at internet shops, there are conventional type turbine for some about 120 bucks shipped. Maybe, is it worth to make testijg for this also.

You need to match the load impedance to the turbine. Use a 8- 24VDC input, 200 Watt MPPT standalone (not grid-tie) inverter to convert DC to 120VAC to match the turbine impedance to the load impedance over the speeds and output voltages of the 3-phase alternator of the turbine. Using a 3-phase rectifier to convert the 3-wire star configuration 3-phase alternator output to dc is OK. Use your 2-wire dc wattmeter betwern the rectifier and the inverter input as before to measure power input to the inverter. Connect a 120vac incandescent light bulb as the load to the inverter output. This turbine will work, perhaps better than you expect (but may not deliver the rated 400 watts), especially at the high speeds you were driving at which exceed most practical normal wind speeds. But you have to know what you are doing and give the turbine a fair chance to work !

Vertical wind turbines have a problem, in that they have to overcome the counter resistance of the blades from 180 degrees on the other side. The only way to overcome that resistance is by using a fixed stator surrounding the vertical turbine, to block wind from the opposing side and redirect that air into the cup side. For a stator just picture a few 2 x 2 boards, angled around the vertical turbine, blocking the opposing side and redirecting that air to the cup side. The stator is essentially squeezing more air into the cup side. You can get by with just one board while testing on your car top. I tested an Apollo 500 watt propeller turbine by mounting it to my truck, and I got my rated voltage at 12 MPH. I did have to adjust the angle of the propeller blades through angled spacers to get that performance. Most turbines are the horizontal propeller type because they are more efficient than vertical turbines.

This could be interesting if he had checked that the wind speed at the turbine actually matches the car's speed. Air flow is probably extremely turbulent on the car roof. Almost no turbine will perform well in turbulent flow. That is why they are mounted high on poles away from obstacles!

Looks great!

Also be wary of Chinese/Ebay solar panels. I bought one that was claimed to be 200W but I measured it at 100W.

May have worked with LEDs?

Will I have one thing to say the say not to use sold wire on them. It need to be stranded wire

Brilliant!

How can you measure “watts” with no load?

Thanks for the info

Well done 👍

Well done! Well done !! Well done !!!: a great idea. Having created the wind, moving the car I recharge the batteries that will allow me to travel forever: a great idea

so it's supposed to be a 400 watt turbine but it produces the amperage of about a 60-70 watt solar panel seems underpowered to me perhaps?

Big thanks almost bought

I have one of these useless things so how do I improve performance or do I need to buy something else? André

I bought one of these because they look cool, I was 100% sure the output would be horrible and it was. I am going to experiment with a variable voltage converter so that I can boost the voltage to somthing useable and maybe get a watt or 2 outta it.

I want to know how much and how much voltage will come out when RPM is turned on

Is there a turbine motor that could replace the one you have to make it work?

Maybe your trying to run a 110 volt light set off of your 12 volt system. That doesn't work.

Hey, is your turbine still working?

There are several factors that could have caused this outcome. With a dead battery at the end of its life it probably wasn't accepting a charge...nor was there any charge controller connected. You cannot expect any reliable results if you don't know what you are doing. What is the probability that you actually broke off one or more wires when you were pinching them with your calliper? Pretty high I'd say.

thanks for video ! I have same tourbine charge the battery with 150ma .this is rabish not tourbine

Chinese say "Lantern Windmill rated 400 Watts in one day." Or .2777 Watts per minute. Strange thing is, that if you hook up 110VAC LED indicators to them you can get a decent amount of light out of one.

Question is how much higher is your fuel consumption....

Epic video bro! 🤦‍♂️

thank you for this you saved me some cash :)

When your driving 40 to 70 and stick the hand out you fan feel your hand being pushed with a lot of force, I imagine properly making a wind fan thats able to funnel most of the air into a narrower cavity and the right flan blade design that can increase air drag flow and were looking at a very viable amount of sufficient power to transfer that energy to a back up battery pack, especially if you drive electric vehicles. while your using one, the other one is being charged, and when the one your using runs low on energy, you turn on the 2nd one to continue, as the wind fan generator charges the first one that was depleted. But never charge a battery as its being used because that creates extra load, then the battery can overheat, reducing lifespan, and can even expand and explode.

Is there an actual turbine set up that works made in the USA? I wanna do the van life thing & was thinking this would be good to have with solar for gloomy windy days. Any suggestions ppl??

Trying to run a 120 volt lamp on about 12 volts was never going to work.

Who is the producer ? No label anywhere . I got a "1500 W" with the 3 wires very thin and discovered all different outputs have same sizes just different background on add. Is there any international body to report and get rid of all these scans ?

When you run the 3 wires to the rectifier ( charge controller ) it changes the current to 12 V DC so that it can charge your battery. If you want to run your lights off this system you either need to go from the battery, which is DC to an inverter which will give you 110 v AC and that is what your light need to run. Or switch your lights to 12 v. DC. Another thing. You are using the worst wire to do this application. The electricity runs on the outside of the copper wire. So using single strand wire in a DC application limits the amount of electricity your able to send through the system. After running through the rectifier the wire should be shorter and much thicker as well as multiple strand. Just rule of thumb for 12v DC.

What receiver did you connect it to? Or did you forget to connect anything apart from your meter... :s The lights are not rated for the voltage the generator is supposed to output, are they... Put some effort into it next time:S

Seems like it’s sitting in a void .. windshield deflection of air flow ?

sometimes obvious truth can be so funny and entertaining :D

I think theres lot of people like me thats mechanically inclined and been interested in wind and solar, but never studied Amps and watts to understand what we need for our projects. I have a 20ft camper on land that I bring a Marine battery to run a couple lights at night mostly on weekends or a week at a time. I thought something like this would be good to keep my battery charged all times so I can leave my battery there becouse i bring it home to charge it. Does anyone have any recommendations that works for me? I dont go solar becouse of shade. The battery would have time to charge for at least 5 days before I'm back. I thought something like this would be nice becouse its small more hidden for what i want. Any ideas is welcome. Thanks for the good video.

it probably has an emergency brake inside to prevent it from being destroyed by bad weather and your giving it bad weather conditions.

You are under the air foil in a vacume move it forward 5 feet so it's a the break of the windshield you will get a very different result but it's still crap the last generation is decent though

It would be ok if it was charging super caps and powering garden lights

Could they have invented a more inefficient wind turbine than one?

Link broken for the turbine

Where would you place the failure to work as advertised, the blade design, the motor, or it's just an all around piece of crap? What would happen if you took the blade portion and attached it to a car fan motor, Robert Murray Smith used one from a Nissan Micro in one of his videos, but it wasn't with a lantern blade configuration. I'm in the process of building a Vardo/sheep herder trailer and planning on solar panels placed on the length of the mollycroft, and being a big redundancy fan thought a small wind turbine on a separate system would be the ticket, the lantern style blades looks as if it would best option

it can be used for next electric car designs . . a wind turbine

Just FYI: there were bulbs missing in the xmas lights.

Thanks for this testing... it seem like the unit is worthless.. 1 solar panel will product more and living with 50 mph winds all the time for spit or two is not good for me.

Did you read the manual ? I have been using this wind generator and it work perfect.

Your car will be using more gas because of the drag and weight. Its a tiny amount but so is the power you generate. Also these drag-type vertical axis wind turbines are very inefficient because the drag keeps it from spinning efficiently, perhaps try the helix type.

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This sound from the view on the roof is very peaceful.

Ha I was just thinking about this

But all those lights you’re trying to use as loads appear to be 120V AC Lights, and the machine is supposed to output 24V DC, right? And your charge controller is looking for a battery, to charge, right? You may be right, but we cant really know for sire because your loads aren’t the right loads to use... you need to connect the charge controller to a battery, then the battery to an inverter, then plug your lights into the inverter. Or juat use a dump load resistor.

I feel like a smaller fan or fanss could work if it was funneled in aerodynamically to the sides of the vehicle.

maybe you need more resistance and a bigger motor that kicks in when you achieve say 25 mph and chokes it at 35 mph with the use of a gear and clutch system.?like an automatic gearbox..creating something that spins too quick may not work like we think it should and im no scientist.

So to do any good you would need a wind speed between 35 to 40 mph. Not good in my opinion.

So the conclusion is that the blades spin fine but the power is low? And the reason it didn't spin when you drove faster is because of a brake function? That's why your meter was blank?

It's acting like one leg may not be connected. running on 2 of the 3 legs greatly limits the current available from the field strength of the magnets. Check the wires with an Ohm meter, (make sure the turbine isn't spinning) and make sure you see same resistance between any 2 wires.(within 5%) to make sure there are no internal shorts, or, disconnects. You might try using one of the heavy duty six-diode bridge rectifiers you're using with your other turbines. Forget 400 watts, let's try for a more realistic 40 watts. It just doesn't look big enough, to have the swept area to produce any more power than that, at any reasonable wind speed. (let alone, it's rated wind speed)

Who else was waiting for the ratchet strap to get tangled ? I stayed for the whole video.

Real nice test! Would be nice if you had also a windmeter on top to see what the m/s was on the speed you drove and the amound of whats

I have treated it in different ways and nothing never work

brought one 07/23 worked ok on my caravan until i got it up to 110 km blade broke off cost more to replace blade than to buy a new one

if i am not wrong if your battery is already charged and you don't have a power cosnapion someone how , you won't get any power from the generator.

Do you recommend it?

Dude. The mph on many turbines are 10- 24 mph (atmosphere wind speed). If you exceed that the safe mode kicks in and dumbs down to protect the system.

What we need is smaller versions of these to screw on the car when it's windy outside and we are not using our car, like at night, simply to make use of the car roof and the wind.

those Lantern turbine has electric brakes on them when spin too fast they slow down

Elon Musk..Wait a minute..let`s add that to the cybertruck

Dont think I'd buy that kind of wind turbin good way to test it

Lol, All I can say is "paper weight"!! Good test though!!

Am i only the one that waiting for that thing to fly away

U can not use that type of wire dc current will not travel thru solid wire. Try 10g weld wire and then it will work. Has to be stranded wire

I will be honest here when saying the Chinees make brilliant watt meters.

i thing so horizontal turbine will be better :-) ..but turbine on tesla..is cool :-) ..how much miles per day can produce this turbine?

I cant find a single vertical wind turbine on utube online nowhere

Everyone did notice the meter reads what is current and he was stopped while showing us. The battery went from 10 volts to 11 volts so it was receiving a charge. cant say how much because we cannot see meter while vehcile is moving.....Inaccurate testing of this....

THANK YOU I was thinking to order its claiming 4000 watts the liars

1.7 WATTS? WTF? Is there anything inside this thing?

The top of vehicle camera seems to show the turbine slow and stop at higher speeds. Suggests turbulence from the vehicle or set up or the turbines internal brake system for high wind speeds

It's the 20 ft of extra wire and the fact that he used single strand instead of multi-strain mc4 that carries more current. Change the wire lose the excess footage and redo the test

4 to 6 watts ? Not several hundred ??

Good concept, but a few flaws I Can see . The turbine is not actually getting the amount of air speed you are driving, as it is not in clean air and the point of compression has changed due to the aerodynamics of the vehicle. Maybe put it on the hood instead of the roof